DISABILITY LINKS
MTSU is an equal opportunity, nonracially identifiable, educational institution that does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities.
There are many resources
available to faculty, staff, and students.
Information of particular interest:
American with Disabilities Act
MTSU ADA Compliance
MTSU
ADA Campus Map
Permanently Disabled
Discount Rules & Procedures
- Accessing PDF Documents with Assistive Technology
- ADD/ADHD
- Aspergers Syndrome
- Careers
- Definitions of Learning Disabilities Explained
- MTSU Military Center
- Reading Strategies
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
ACCESSING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
A screen reader user's guide to accessing PDF documents with assistive technology.
ADDA:
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) is designated as
a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization by the Internal Revenue
Service. This international organization has been in
existence since 1989. The mission of ADDA is to provide
information, resources and networking to adults with ADD/ADHD and
to the professionals who work with them.
ADDvance
You may be a parent searching for information to help your child,
an adult experiencing problems at work, a high school or college
student struggling to keep up, a young adult trying to take charge
of your own life, a woman whose daily life feels overwhelming, or a
professional looking for information to help your clients with
ADD/ADHD. Whoever you are, whatever your questions, we are
here to assist you in finding the answers you're looking for.
OASIS @ MAAP
Asperger Syndrome Information and Support (OASIS) center has joined
with MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syndrome to create a
single resource for families, individuals, and medical
professionals who deal with the challenge of Asperger Syndrome,
Autism, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder/Not Otherwise
Specified (PDD/NOS).
Autism Society of
America
The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong
access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and
their families to be fully included, participating members of their
communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and
research related to autism.
Yale Developmental Disabilities
Clinic
This site provides information about clinical and research services
at the Developmental Disabilities Section at the Yale Child Study
Center, as well as publications on autism, Asperger Syndrome, and
related disorders; lists of resources organized by state; and links
with many clinical and research groups, as well as parent support
or organizations and advocacy agencies.
ACT: Resources for Education and
Workplace Success
ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that
provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and
program management services in the broad areas of education and
workforce development.
America's Job Bank
America's Job Bank can help find the job that's right for
you. Thousands of new jobs are posted daily by employers searching
for someone like you.
Bender
Consulting Services, Inc.
Providing consulting in information technology and
creating employment opportunities for all people with
abilities.
Career Opportunities for
Students with Disabilities (COSD)
COSD is a unique consortium composed of large and small
universities, well - known national employers and US Government
agencies focused on the career employment of college graduates with
disabilities. COSD is funded through a grant provided by the U. S.
Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Career
Connection Blog
Disability.gov's blog regarding careers for people with
disabilities.
Disability
Resources on the Internet: Career Center
Disability Resources, inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization established to promote and improve awareness,
availability and accessibility of information that can help people
with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play independently.
We disseminate information about books, pamphlets, magazines,
newsletters, videos, databases, government agencies, nonprofit
organizations, telephone hotlines and on-line services that provide
free, inexpensive or hard-to-find information to help people with
disabilities live independently.
Disaboom
Disaboom is an interactive online community for those with
disabilities and their caregivers, friends, families,
organizations, medical providers and others.
Entry Point!
Entry Point!, a program of the American Association for
the Advancment of Science (AAAS) offers outstanding summer
internships and semester co-ops in major companies throughout the
United States. Entry Point! is available to students with
disabilities majoring in science, engineering, mathematics, and
some business fields.
Exploring Career
Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics-2006-07
Edition
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal
fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field
of labor economics and statistics. This site offers information for
students looking to pursue various careers.
GettingHired.com
GettingHired is a national employment and social
networking portal that uniquely connects job seekers with
disabilities with employers committed to hiring them. Many career
building tools are available including Career Compatibility
Assessments, Cover Letter and Resume Building Tools, Video
Interviewing Training, and more.
IBM's
Diversity Recruitment Programs
Think core values. Look for a company that believes
workforce diversity is a major contributor to success. IBM has been
the leader in corporate workforce diversity since its founding. Did
you know that we employ specialists dedicated to recruiting women,
minorities and people with disabilities?
Impact: Feature
Issue on Employment and Women with Disabilities
The Institute on Community Integration, University of
Minnesota, has published "Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and
Women with Disabilities," a publication offering personal stories,
strategies, research, and resources to enhance employment options
for girls and women with disabilities.
Job Accommodation Network
A free consulting service designed to increase the
employability of people with disabilities by providing
individualized worksite accommodations solutions, providing
technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related
legislation, and educating callers about self-employment
options.
JobEnable.Com
The goal of JobEnable.com is to enhance the opportunities
for people with disabilities to find employment by providing a
vehicle where they can showcase their qualifications and talents to
an audience of prospective employers. On JobEnable.com, job seekers
can post their resumes and search the database for available
positions. Employers are able to post jobs and search resumes,
recruiting qualified candidates who are the best fit for their
organization.
Lightning
JobSource
Lightning JobSource is the online recruiting program used by the
MTSU Career Development Center to coordinate student employment
opportunities (on and off campus), internships, and entry level
career positions. After creating an account, students can
check job postings, upload a resume to resume books, check the
calendar of events, and access InterviewStream, a web-cam recorded
mock interview program.
Major to Career
Converter
Find a listing of career opportunities reflective of your
academic major, interests, values, personal style and skills. Some
career opportunities will require advanced study.
Monster.com Diversity and Inclusion
National
Business and Disability Council's Resume Database
Graduating students, new and old persons with disabilities
who hold postsecondary degrees are invited to register their
resumes with the NBDC. There is no charge to list your resume.
National
Technical Assistance Centers on Workforce and Disability
The National Center on Workforce and Disability for Adults
(NCWD-Adult) is a comprehensive technical assistance resource that
can assist organizations and professionals who provide workforce
development and employment related services to adults with
disabilities. The NCWD-Adult provides training, technical
assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for
all in the workforce development system. The National Collaborative
on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD-Y) is a comprehensive
technical assistance resource to assist the workforce development
community to address issues affecting the employment of youth with
disabilities. The NCWD-Y includes partners with expertise in
disability, education, employment and workforce development issues.
The Collaborative strives to ensure that youth with disabilities
are provide full access to high quality services in integrated
settings that maximize employment and independent living
opportunities.
O*NET Online
The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of
occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET
database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and
occupation-specific descriptors. The database is continually
updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation.
Information from this freely available database forms the heart of
O*NET OnLine, the interactive application for exploring and
searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our
Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments
for workers and students looking to find or change careers.
Society
for Human Resource Management
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) created
this resource page with employers in mind. Here you will find a
wealth of resources, articles and links to help you source,
recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities, a pool of
talent too often overlooked by employers.
Target Jobs
Graduate career advice and jobs.
The
411 on Your Job Rights
This new fact sheet from the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) explains to teens and young people their
employment rights. The fact sheet is also available in
Spanish.
The Work Site - Employment
Support for People with Disabilities (Social Security Online)
The Work Site strives to promote the employment of Social
Security beneficiaries with disabilities by designing policies that
make work pay, promoting research and program innovation, educating
the public about programs and services that facilitate entry into
the workforce, and partnering with other public and private groups
to remove employment barriers for people with disabilities.
The
Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students with
Disabilities
The Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students
with Disabilities (WRP) is a resource to connect public and private
sector employers nationwide with highly motivated postsecondary
students and recent graduates with disabilities who are eager to
prove their abilities in the workforce. Employers seek to fill both
temporary and permanent positions in a variety of fields.
U.S. Department of Labor -
Office of Disability Employment Policy
The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides
national leadership on disability employment policy by developing
and influencing the use of evidence-based disability employment
policies and practices, building collaborative partnerships, and
delivering authoritative and credible data on employment of people
with disabilities.
Youth,
Disclosure, and the Workplace: Why, When, What, and How
This fact sheet provides guidance and explore issues
related to disclosing one's disability to an employer.
Virtual Career
Center
The Virtual Career Center provides students access to online career
resources available through the Career Development Center as well
as selective links from other external resources.
There are a number of definitions of learning disabilities used in the US and in other countries. Bridges to Practice chose the definition of the National Joint Commission on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) in its 1994 revision. That definition is presented below in an annotated format to help you interpret its meaning as applied to adults.
| Learning Disabilities Defined | Application to Adults |
| Learning disabilities is a general term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders | There is neither one type of learning disability nor one profile for adults with learning disabilities. There are many different patterns of difficulties. For example, one adult may have a serious reading disability, while another may be able to read adequately, but not be able to communicate thoughts in writing. |
| in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities, | Learning disabilities are specific in nature. Learning problems encompass one or more ability areas; e.g., reading or math, but do not necessarily include all ability areas. They do not represent simply a delay in development. |
| presumed to be due to central nervous system dysfunction, | Although most adults with learning disabilities will not have a medical diagnosis of neurological disorder, the assumption is that there is some sort of difference or difficulty in how the brain works. Current research is shedding greater light on this area. |
| and may occur across the life span. | Learning disabilities may be uncovered at different stages of a person's life, depending on many factors. Some factors include severity of the disorder; academic, vocational, and social setting demands; and educators' knowledge of learning disabilities. The symptoms change over time so that a learning disability in a 7-year-old child looks different from one in an adult. |
| Problems in self-regulatory behaviors, social perception, and social interaction may exist with learning disabilities, | Some adults will have difficulty in self-control, perceiving social situations appropriately, and getting along with other people. |
| but do not by themselves constitute a learning disability. | The problems described in self-regulation, social perception, and interaction, although often present in adults with learning disabilities, also occur in persons with other disabilities, as well. There are many reasons for these types of problems other than underlying learning disabilities. |
| Although learning disabilities may occur concomitantly with other handicapping conditions (for example, sensory impairment, mental retardation, serious emotional disturbance), | A learning disability may be present with other disorders, but these conditions are not the cause of the learning disability. For example, an adult may have a hearing loss along with a learning disability, but the hearing loss is not causing the learning disability. Also, learning disabilities are not related to low intelligence. In fact, most people with learning disabilities are average or above average in intelligence, but the impact of the disability may impair their ability to function well in school, at home, or in the workplace. |
| or with extrinsic influences (such as cultural differences, insufficient or inappropriate instruction). | Although learning disabilities are not the result of inadequate schooling or opportunity to learn, they are often exacerbated by these factors. For example, individuals with learning disabilities frequently have fewer opportunities to learn in their area of disability; they tend to be challenged less by their area of disability; they tend to be challenged less by their teachers and parents. Therefore, by the time individuals with learning disabilities become adults, they are further behind than the learning disability would predict. |
How are learning disabilities related to dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a common form of LD. There are several kinds of
learning disabilities, defined here by the National Center for
Learning Disabilities. Click below to find out more.
Kinds of Learning Disabilities:
MTSU MILITARY CENTER
The purpose of the MTSU Military Center is to provide a
comprehensive support structure to serve veteran/military students
attending MTSU. This includes providing services and programs
to ensure a positive and successful academic experience.
Visit
www.mtsu.edu/military
for more information.
Just Read Now
Just Read Now offers an "up close" look at a range of innovative
and effective reading strategies, along with actual classroom
examples and associated lesson plans. The Just Read Now
strategies can be applied across academic disciplines and learner
levels.
Reading
Strategies: Reading Efficiently by Reading
Intelligently
Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient
way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your
reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you
how to use six (6) different strategies to read intelligently.
Brain Injury Association of
America
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading
national organization serving and representing individuals,
families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering,
often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together
with its network of more than 40 chartered state affiliates, as
well as hundreds of local chapters and support groups across the
country, the BIAA provides information, education and support to
assist the 5.3 million Americans currently living with traumatic
brain injury and their families.
BIA of
Tennessee
The primary mission of BIAT is to provide ongoing information,
support and referral services to survivors of traumatic brain
injury, their families and the public. The membership is
comprised of people with brain injuries, their families and
friends, and service providers who are working together to provide
education, advocacy and support for those affected by brain
injury.
Project
BRAIN
A resource and training network for educators, families, and health
professionals who support students in Tennessee with Traumatic
Brain Injury (TBI). Project BRAIN is part of the Tennessee
Disability Coalition.
TN Department
of Health TBI Program
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program was established by the
Tennessee General Assembly to address the needs of those
individuals who have sustained a brain injury, as well as their
family members and primary caregivers.
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury
Center
The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brian Injury Center (DVBIC)
is to serve active duty military, their beneficiaries, and veterans
with TBI through state of the art clinical care, innovative
clinical research initiatives, and educational programs.
MTSU Disabled Student Services gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Office of Disability Services at James Madison University in the development of this web site.
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